510 battery life

[a2dcovert]

I agree with Kevin. I read exactly that info. a while back (Battery University?), and I quit leaving them on for hours. When it turns green, I pull them off. Haven't noticed any difference in run time at all. Wish I'd known that back when I first started.

My guess is that it is too much trouble for the manufacturers to write new instructions for the Li-Ions since they would have to be written then translated to English.

Kevin

[Scottbee]

My batteries are lucky to last me an hours.. and I get crappy cart life too. But a lot of that can be attributed to the way that I use my 510. I do primer puffs... I take long, hard draws, I chain-vape.. etc. etc.. And while I know that I could get longer battery and cart life if I changed my habits.. I don't care. I enjoy my habits and I vape for my personal enjoyment. So I'm not going to reduce my pleasure in order to reduce swap-out frequency.

Because when it comes to vaping.. it's all about ME. Me, me, me damnit!!!

[Hellen A. Handbasket]

LOL Angus. Shameless! I need to find a cheap adapter for my Chuck (have the 801 fittings, and I want to run my 510 but don't want to pay $15 for a stinking adapter... humph!).

Kevin, I'm sure they'll never invest in printing up decent information in the kits. I laughed about the last one I received. It reads:

Non-flammable. Can use in non-smoking zones, such as gas stations.

The Production of "smoke" is actually a vaporization of the water-soluble glue, and therefore the does not produce dangerous "second-had smoking" making it harmess to others and the environment. The MEC can be used in .....

Glue... really says that. Holy Hell.

This 801 instruction booklet says the battery is 3.3v to 4.2v and "typical charge time" is 2 to 2.5 hours and says it needs a charge of 8 hours for the first charge.

Sighhhhh

[AngusATAT]

LOL Angus. Shameless! I need to find a cheap adapter for my Chuck (have the 801 fittings, and I want to run my 510 but don't want to pay $15 for a stinking adapter... humph!).

You should have gotten a 510 Chuck. Then you could use the 510 to 801 or 901 adapters. I believe those work much better than using an adapter from an 801 to 510.

I'd recommend to anyone using a 510 to invest in one of the battery mods. An 18650 battery on a good charge runs at around 4.2v, which makes a 510 really shine as far as vapor and flavor. Between that, and being able to vape for two days on a single charge, it's pure, unadulterated vaping bliss.

[Hellen A. Handbasket]

Pondering getting another one. Chuck with a 510 would be sweet. arghhhhhh I don't do designs well. Maybe I'll have to steal something on line, ha.

Wish I would have snagged that Harley 510 Chuck this morning... that would have been fun!!

[AngusATAT]

Pondering getting another one. Chuck with a 510 would be sweet. arghhhhhh I don't do designs well. Maybe I'll have to steal something on line, ha.

Wish I would have snagged that Harley 510 Chuck this morning... that would have been fun!!

I'm looking at getting a Little Chuck in the wrinkled black finish. It looks sweet.

But we're wandering dangerously off topic here.

[Hellen A. Handbasket]

We're talking about batteries for a 510.... not original batteries.... lol. Yes, we've killed this one dead.

Ok... I'll go back to Jeff's thread. hehehe

[a2dcovert]

I think it's fitting to discuss battery mods. The OP subject was about the only real dissadvantage that the 510 has, battery life. The high performance features of the 510 make it a battery and juice hog. The many different commercial mods offer a solution to one of the problems.

When I was using only the stock batteries with my 510 it looked like a battery assembly line. I was constantly charging batteries and having to swap out using 2 chargers at once.

Then I went to a nicostick and thought I was in heaven using a 510 that would go 4 to 6 hours on a charge. Now with the Prodigy I can vape 4 to 6 hours at 5 volts, which takes vaping to a new level, or I can swap out the switch and insert a 2600mAh 18650 and vape for 2 to 3 days at 3.7 volts on one battery.

There are solutions to the 510 battery life issue.

Kevin

[RKayne]

But...that is the funny thing. We don't need mods, out of 8 batteries (we have 6 left, sold a set to a friend super cheap) they all perform above par, according to what I read. And about that PCC, it seems we can get it to charge about 6-8 times before it needs to be charged (just looked over and I am green, lol...guess I can leave the house now). Maybe we did get lucky, and continue to do so. I like the simple design and so does my wife!

[burney]

i think with the manual batteries they tend to wear a bit quicker because your pressing that button and getting awesome long drags of smoke. constant dragging on mine will get me 2 hours of smoke. i too could last allnight i think with casual smoking in a bar.
anyways ill take a battery that gives me great hits for two hours over weak drags for 4 hours anyday!!! just buy a few extra batteries and have them pre charged and ready to go. auto batteries are really a tough smoke and i dont care how powerful your battery is.